Painfully Ugly, But Does It Matter?
Everyone knows the city's new hotel, a Home2 Suites at 12th and Arch, is an architectural mess. Do other factors make up for it? Nathaniel Popkin explores the corporate mindset (and gets kicked out of...
View ArticleYour Lines, Imagined
We all dream of subway lines, says Nathaniel Popkin. Tell us yours
View ArticleInside A Stone Castle, They Wish To Throw Up More Bricks
Mother Bethel and Society Hill Civic Association protest a proposed new development for "not fitting in." Nathaniel Popkin wonders if this isn't a double standard
View ArticleA Story In Letters
A chance realization leads to this meditation on neighborhood change by Nathaniel Popkin
View ArticlePVM, RIP
Few could dream the possible city as well as Paul vanMeter, the landscape gardener and founder of ViaductGreene, who died suddenly Thursday. Nathaniel Popkin's tribute
View ArticleOn Revolution Museum, Readers Have Spoken
Signees of the "Declaration of Architectural Independence" had a lot to say about the proposed design for the Museum
View ArticleHow Can You Know What It Means To Be Here
What explains the power of place, of Fairmount Park especially, to give meaning to our lives? Nathaniel Popkin on three writers drawn to the park, including the great poet Stephen Berg, who died 12...
View ArticleHow Spruce Street Harbor Park Succeeds
In a city of squandered opportunities, here's an intervention that transforms the way we interact with space--and the city. Nathaniel Popkin reviews the new Spruce Street Harbor Park, opening tomorrow
View ArticleClass Warfare On Arch Street
Nathaniel Popkin takes a look at three new Old City row houses under construction that disrespect the city, the site, and the famous woman mythologized across the street
View ArticleCircling Back To The Ross Loopholes
Garage-front houses are going up across from the Betsy Ross House because the developers of the houses exploited a trifecta of loopholes in the regulatory system. Following up on an earlier report,...
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